Supreme Court of the United States

By Mcdonald, William F.

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Title:	Supreme Court of the United States
Author:	Mcdonald, William F.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Legislation., Economic & political studies
Collections:	Government Library Collection, Government Printing Office
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Publisher:	Government Printing Office


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Excerpt: Justice Stevens delivered the opinion of the Court. The Line Item Veto Act (Act), 110 Stat. 1200, 2 U. S. C. S691 et seq. (1994 ed., Supp. II), was enacted in April 1996 and became effective on January 1, 1997. The following day, six Members of Congress who had voted against the Act brought suit in the District Court for the District of Columbia challenging its constitutionality. On April 10, 1997, the District Court entered an order holding that the Act is unconstitutional. Byrd v. Raines, 956 F. Supp. 25. In obedience to the statutory direction to allow a direct, expedited appeal to this Court, see SS692(b)-(c), we promptly noted probable jurisdiction and expedited review, 520 U. S. _ (1997). We determined, however, that the Members of Congress did not have standing to sue because they had not “alleged a sufficiently concrete injury to have established Article III standing,” Raines v. Byrd, 521 U. S. (1997) (slip op., at 18); thus, “in . light of (the) overriding and time-honored concern about keeping the Judiciary’s power within its proper constitutional ...

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